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  • Army, Air Force Conduct Joint Close Air Support Exercises With Lockheed F-35
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    Army, Air Force Conduct Joint Close Air Support Exercises With Lockheed F-35

    The U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force have conducted joint close air support exercises with two Lockheed Martin-built F-35A Lightning II aircraft at Eglin Air Force Base. Members of the 3rd Ranger Battalion visited Eglin to simulate the communication operations, fire support planning as well as laser range and target location operations during a close air support mission, the Army […] More

  • CAE Adds Full-Mission Simulator to Tampa C-130 Training Center; Ray Duquette Comments
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    CAE Adds Full-Mission Simulator to Tampa C-130 Training Center; Ray Duquette Comments

    CAE has added a new full-mission simulator to its Tampa, Florida-based C-130 training center as part of an effort to help fulfill the training requirements of Hercules airlifter pilots. The C-130H/L-382 simulator incorporates the Flight2 glass cockpit avionics system from Rockwell Collins, the CAE Medallion-6000 image generator for synthetic environment on a display system driven by Sony […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Lands $71M Army Contract for Artillery Warning Tech Support
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    Northrop Grumman Lands $71M Army Contract for Artillery Warning Tech Support

    Northrop Grumman has landed a $71 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide hardware and support services for rocket, artillery and mortar warning technology that combat brigades use. The Army Contracting Command awarded the contract via Internet solicitation with one received response for the services estimated to complete on Feb. 28, 2019, the Defense Department said […] More

  • Smiths Detection Gets $54M Army Contract to Support Protective Shelter Production
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    Smiths Detection Gets $54M Army Contract to Support Protective Shelter Production

    Smiths Detection has been awarded a $54 million U.S Army contract to provide technical support for the production of M8E1 chemical and biological protective shelters at Pine Bluff Arsenal. The Defense Department said Monday solicitation was conducted online with one bid received. Smiths Detection will perform work through Dec. 31, 2018, while location and funding are to be […] More

  • Trabus Technologies Wins Potential $12.6M Navy Airborne Comms, Networking Support Contract
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    Trabus Technologies Wins Potential $12.6M Navy Airborne Comms, Networking Support Contract

    Trabus Technologies has won a potential $12.6 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide airborne communications and networking technical services to the U.S. Navy. The company will also perform engineering, programmatic services and related certification and information assurance for new, existing and future developments to communication and networking systems, the Defense Department said Monday. Trabus Technologies is one […] More

  • General Dynamics Opens UK Facility for AFV Assembly, Integration, Tests
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    General Dynamics Opens UK Facility for AFV Assembly, Integration, Tests

    General Dynamics‘ U.K. subsidiary has opened a new facility in South Wales to carry out assembly, integration and testing functions for the Armored Fighting Vehicle program in Britain. The facility was declared open and will undergo refurbishment through 2016 and is projected to be fully operational by 2017, General Dynamics said Monday. General Dynamics Land Systems U.K. […] More

  • CTC Makes Ethisphere’s ‘Most Ethical Companies’ List; Ed Sheehan Comments
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    CTC Makes Ethisphere’s ‘Most Ethical Companies’ List; Ed Sheehan Comments

    The Ethisphere Institute has named Concurrent Technologies Corp. as part of the institute’s list of the World’s “Most Ethical Companies” of 2016 under the scientific and technical services category. This year’s recognition marks the fourth time CTC received the honor, which recognizes companies that work to align actions with principle and build trust to help shape industry standards […] More

  • Fulcrum Appoints Laura Smith as GSA OASIS, DoD Program Manager; Jeff Handy Comments
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    Fulcrum Appoints Laura Smith as GSA OASIS, DoD Program Manager; Jeff Handy Comments

    Laura Smith has joined Fulcrum as program manager for the company’s business pursuits with the Defense Department and the General Services Administration‘s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services. Smith previously served in the U.S Navy for more than 20 years before her retirement from military service as an intelligence officer, the company said Jan. 3. “Laura fits right […] More

  • Intelsat, L-3 Subsidiaries Test Automatic Beam Switching Tech for Unmanned Aerial Systems
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    Intelsat, L-3 Subsidiaries Test Automatic Beam Switching Tech for Unmanned Aerial Systems

    Subsidiaries of Intelsat and L-3 Communications have tested a new automatic beam switching technology designed to help unmanned aircraft systems with the latter company’s satellite communications packages run on the former’s Epic high-throughput satellite platform. Intelsat General and L-3 CS-West aim to help UAS achieve throughput through Epic and subsequently validate the platform’s compatability with existing aircraft, Intelsat said Monday. The companies carried out the test on Intelsat’s Horizons-1 […] More

  • Globecomm Releases New Satellite Connectivity Service for Enterprise, Gov’t Sectors
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    Globecomm Releases New Satellite Connectivity Service for Enterprise, Gov’t Sectors

    Globecomm has unveiled a managed satellite service offering intended to facilitate high-capacity broadband connectivity for fixed or mobile government and enterprise communications. The VSAT service is designed to support data and video transmission on ground, maritime and aerial platforms as well as Internet of Things-based applications, Globecomm said Monday. Jon Kirchner, senior vice president of corporate strategy at Globecomm, said the company  […] More

  • Northrop Navigation Tech Incorporated in Dassault-Led Euro Combat Drone
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    Northrop Navigation Tech Incorporated in Dassault-Led Euro Combat Drone

    A Northrop Grumman subsidiary based in Germany has worked with Saab Aerosystems to develop a navigation, flight guidance and control system for an unmanned combat air vehicle prototype that flew over France, Italy and Sweden in flight tests. Northrop Grumman LITEF helped build the Attitude and Heading Reference System for the nEUROn drone that a six-country cooperative developed as an experimental, stealth platform to help build and test […] More

  • Space Agency Orders Kratos Satellite Tracking Modems
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    Space Agency Orders Kratos Satellite Tracking Modems

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been awarded a contract by South Asia-based space agency to provide telemetry, tracking and command modems for the customer’s satellite ground infrastructure. Kratos subsidiary RT Logic will produce integrated TT&C baseband modems for the customer agency to manage operation of its new and existing satellites, the company said Monday. RT Logic’s technology is designed with […] More